Cancer, the killer disease is a heavy threat to the mankind.
It is considered as incurable disease and many people are
succumbed to death. Even the children are pray to the
killer. The mental agony and miseries of the unfortunate
patients and their families cannot descry in words.

The Medical experts reveal that in case of children, if the
cancer disease is detected in the initial phase, it can be
cured in most of the cases. It gives hopes for the patients,
relatives and society. Since the treatment is not affordable
to the BPL families they fail to give effective treatment at
the initial period. Hence , Social welfare department is to
constitute a Cancer Suraksha Fund for Child Patients of
Cancer by giving financial assistance to the RCC/ Govt.
Medical C colleges up to Rs.50,000/- on the basis of medical
certificate for the eligible families whose annual income
should be below Rs. 60,000/- The amount accrued through
Government fund and /or sale of stamps may provide as corpus
fund and the amount received as interest in a year would be
distributed through a committee

Despite near
total literacy, Little effort has been made to direct
literacy towards building up a gender sensitive social
environment challenging the survival of feudal- patriarchal
attitudes and institutions, which perpetuate violence
against women in the state. A sustained campaign,
sensitizing the household and the public domain while at
the same time creating awareness in ways that would enable
young girls and women to use the provisions of the law to
defend themselves against acts of violence and seek remedial
measures, is urgently required given the rising incidence of
Domestic Violence, Sexual harassment and Dowry demands. This
programme aims at over coming gender based discriminations
through several measures whose collective impact should be
significant. To implement the programme, starting with
implementing the provisions to be made for initiating action
on the protection of women from Domestic violence Act, 2005,
Rs.500 Lakh is provided for 2007-08

Since there is no
separate department as of now to which the funds can be
allocated, it is distributed in the following way Rs.500 Lakhs under Social Welfare Department of which Rs. 125 Lakhs
is allocated to Kerala State Women Development Corporation
and Rs.50.00 Lakhs to Kerala Womens Commission ; Rs. 15
Lakhs to Kudumbashree and Rs.25 Lakhs to State Women Cell
in the police department. In view of the fact that the
project involves a number of agencies, the State Planning
Board will co-ordinate the project preparation.

Flagship programme forgender awareness proposed to be implemented during the
current year.

Media campaign for gender sensitisation

Additional facilities for shelter homes,
counseling centres

Training to Judicial officer, Public
Prosecutors, DYSP’s/CI’s, Station Head officers

State
Government has introduced a new scheme as Flagship programme
on Finishing School for women. This Scheme proposes to equip
women job seekers to upgrade their skill through ordinal
training so as to make them employable. The un employment
rate among the youth in Kerala is exceedingly high and this
is particularly true among young females. It was 45.8
percent in rural areas ( as against 32.3 percent for young
males) and 50.4 percent in urban areas ( as against 26.6
percent young males). On 3,987,035 registered job seekers as
on September 2006, on the live register of employment
exchanges in Kerala; 58 percent are females. Kerala appears
to be caught up in a “high literacy- low skill” trap. A
number of women job seekers are forced to take up employment
in vocations with very low skills in the service sector.
These jobs are extremely low paid, insecure, unstable,
informal sector jobs and account for the large , bloated
service sector in Kerala. In this context, this flagship
program on finishing schools proposes to equip women job
seekers to upgrade their skills through additional training
so as to make them “employable “. For this purpose, the
services of a number of institutions like I T I’s,
Engineering colleges, I I T’s, public and private industries
etc.. would be used. The Social Welfare Department and the
Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation would
co-ordinate in implementing the program. An outlay of Rs.200
lakh is provided for the Annual Plan 2007-08. The Outlay for
2007-08 is derived from the flagship allotment of Rs.13
Crores given to Labour and Labour Welfare.

The following schemes
are proposed to be implemented during the current year.

Flagship Programme on finishing school for
Engineering graduates and ITI and other skill holders

Support to distressed educated equip them to
seek employment in government sector.

Finishing School for inmates in Mahilamandiram and former inmates of welfare institution,
disadvantaged group.

The protection of Women
from Domestic Violence Act. 2005 has been notified by the
Central Government and has come into force with effect from
October 26, 2006. the Act is basically meant to provide
protection to the wife or female live in partner from
violence at the hands of the husband of male live-in-partner
or his relatives. Domestic violence under the Act includes
actual abuse or the threat of abuse, whether physical
sexual, verbal emotional or economic. Harassment by way of
unlawful dowry demands to the women victim, or her relatives
would also be covered under the definition of domestic
violence.

Role and function of the
Central/State Government under the Act has been specified
in section 11 of the Act. They are as follows.

To give wide publicity through
public media including TV, radio & print media at regular
basis.

Periodic sensitization & awareness
training on the issues addressed by the Act to the officer
including the Police Officers & members of Judicial
service.

Effective co-ordination between
concerned Minister & Departments.

Publication of protocol for various
agencies concerned with the delivery of services.